HIS 112 (Summer 2012)
8 Week Course Assignment Schedule
30 May Start Date
 
 
Grades are recorded in the gradebook in Blackboard. For an explanation of the critical course deadlines, highlighted on the schedule in bold, please see the course home page.
 
Week Starts Topic Assignments/Critical course Deadlines Assignment
Due Date
Possible
Points
30
May
Unit 1: Introduction Required Introduction paragraph 8 am
4 June
50
3
June
Unit 2: Seventeenth-Century Europe

Required Seventeenth-Century paragraph

8 am
7 June
50
Unit 3: Persia Required Chardin paper; Last Refund Date/Blackboard Sign-In Deadline (7 June) 8 am
11 June
100
10 June Unit 4: East Asia Optional Japan paragraph 8 am
14 June
(25)
Unit 5: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Required Declaration paragraph 8 am
18 June
50
17
June
Unit 6: Industrialization and Western Modernization Optional Industry paragraph 8 am
21 June
(25)
Unit 7: Nineteenth-Century World *Optional Achebe paper 8 am
25 June
(100)
24
June
Unit 8: Russia Midterm Exam Due Date 29 June 150
Unit 9: World War I *Optional Remarque paper 8 am
2 July
(100)
1
July
Unit 10: World War II Required Genocide paragraph; Last Withdrawal Date (3 July) 8 am
5 July
50
Unit 11: Modernization Required Web paper 8 am
9 July
100
8
July
Unit 12: Cold War Extra Credit Special project paper 8 am
12 July
(50-100)
Unit 13: Decolonization and Nation-Building Required UN paragraph 8 am
16 July
50
15
July
Unit 14: South Asian Independence *Optional Gandhi paper 8 am
19 July
(100)
Unit 15: Final Exam Final exam; Course End Date (25 July) 23 July 250
Any Week   Online Discussion (Post ten times during the course.)   50
    TOTAL REQUIRED POINTS   1,000
 
* You must do one of these three book paper assignments.
 
 
Blue Separator Bar

The specific assignment deadlines in this course are listed on the course schedule. You may not submit late extra credit work from a course unit. You may submit any of the course assignments, or optional course assignments late, but the maximum point value will then be reduced by one-half.

Course grades are based on the following scale:

  • 1,000-900:  A
  •    899-800:  B
  •    799-700:  C
  •    699-600:  D
  •    599-000:  F

Please remember that you must pass the final exam with a grade of "C" (175/250) or better to earn a passing grade of "C" or better in this course.

 

 

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